As the world shifts toward sustainable energy sources, "green hydrogen"—hydrogen produced without emitting carbon—has emerged ...

However, in new research that furthers our understanding of the planet's atmospheric evolution, astronomers announced they've directly detected the presence of atomic oxygen in both the day and ...

“In our attempt to remotely measure the isotopic composition of oxygen in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere of Earth, we use a relativistic effect, thanks to which the electronic ground state of ...

Scientists have detected oxygen in a galaxy so distant that its light has traveled 13.4 billion years to reach Earth, shedding new light on the universe’s infancy. This groundbreaking discovery was ...

Atomic oxygen (O1) has been directly detected in the clouds of Venus for the first time The detection provides a way to study the atmospheric circulation on Venus It may also hint at the idea ...

upGREAT measured the concentration of atomic oxygen on the day and night side of Venus. Measurements were carried out using the upGREAT terahertz spectrometer on board the SOFIA airborne observatory.

They noted that this atomic oxygen, which consists of a single oxygen atom, differs from molecular oxygen, which consists of two oxygen atoms and is breathable. The researchers directly detected ...

A recently published study describes how researchers used the telescope, which is sensitive to warmth-carrying infrared wavelengths of light, to detect so-called heavy atomic oxygen in upper ...

Each dot represents an electron. Since the atomic number of oxygen is 8, it will have 8 protons in the nucleus. An atom of oxygen is neutral and so will have 8 electrons. Two electrons will fill ...